Massage & Bodywork

November/December 2010

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news notes COMPILED BY SEAN EADS Massage therapy combined with relaxation training was found to be the most commonly MASSAGE THERAPY FUNDRAISER Hygenic/Performance Health and Kinesio Taping Association raised $25,000 on behalf of the Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF) in the first half of 2010 through a series of 20 workshops called Elevate Your Practice. More than 1,200 massage therapists attended the workshops, which were held across the country and designed to teach therapeutic approaches using Biofreeze Pain Reliever, Prossage, and the Kinesio Taping Method. Hygenic/Performance Health and Kinesio Taping Association were underwriters of the workshop and donated 100 percent of the registration fees to the MTF. used and highly regarded technique. Massage and Chronic Tension Headaches A new, but small study conducted by researchers in the United States and Spain helps fill an evidence gap for massage as a manual therapy treatment for chronic tension headaches, a debilitating condition that does not always respond well to medication. Eleven adult patients were given either head-neck massage or a placebo to treat their persistent pain. Placebos were found to have no effect at all, while the massage sessions increased heart rate variability and significantly reduced head pain for up to 24 hours. The study was reported in Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. For more information about headaches, turn to Myofascial Techniques on page 108. CAM and Spinal Cord Injury Researchers in the Netherlands published findings of one of the largest studies taken on the efficacy of various CAM modalities to treat spinal cord injuries; 575 patients were surveyed and asked to evaluate their current level of pain and to judge the perceived effectiveness of a variety of pain management techniques. Massage therapy combined with relaxation training was found to be the most commonly used and highly regarded technique, followed by acupuncture, physiotherapy, and cannabis prescriptions. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)/ ultrasound was found to be the least effective, though patients reported all CAM therapies managed pain better than medication. The findings were published in the August 2010 issue of Disability and Rehabilitation. 16 massage & bodywork november/december 2010

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